La pensee mythique amerindienne a la lumiere de la philosophie (Popol Vuh, livre sacre Quiche-Maya)

La pensee mythique-philosophique amerindienne va au-dela de toute raison logique parce qu'elle garde sa propre raison specifique dans la dimension de la parole symbolique, propre a la parole de l'origine, en accord avec sa realite culturelle.

C'est dans cette perspective que nous avonds analyse le "Popol Vuh", livre sacre de la societe Quiche-Maya, redige durant l'epoque precolombienne dans une ecriture caracteristique et conserve dans le peuple en la memoire orale collective. Ce livre constitue en temoignage et un memorial de la vision de la genese de cette socitete. La Creation y predomine dans une dimension cosmo-theogonique, hautement religieuse, exprimant la volonte d'un Dieu dont la presence est la puissance supreme qui regit tout l'univers, a partir du principe de sa connaisance divine, manifeste en la Parole, lumiere de sagesse, sur la base de lauelle se developpe la Creation.

La vision philosophique se rend present tout au long du processus de la Creation, percue dans la transcendance du Ciel, vision d'un pluralism metaphysique deploye dans l'Unite cosmique qui figure la presence du Dieu Kabawil, principe de sagesse qui genere le mouvement dans le cosmos et cree l'etre humain semblable a lui.

La raison specifique a la parole symbolisee rend compte de l'objectivite du penser, elle est immanent aux fonctions spirituelles concretisees dans la signification du message qui lui assigne une valeur propre ou s'enracine la specifite de cette pensee philosophique.

Alternate abstract:

Amerindian mythical-philosophical thought goes beyond all logical reason because it keeps its own specific reason in the dimension of symbolic speech, specific to the speech of the origin, in accordance with its cultural reality.

It is from this perspective that we analyzed the "Popol Vuh", sacred book of the Quiche-Maya society, written during the pre-Columbian era in a characteristic writing and preserved among the people in collective oral memory. This book constitutes a testimony and a memorial of the vision of the genesis of this society. Creation predominates there in a cosmo-theogonic, highly religious dimension, expressing the will of a God whose presence is the supreme power which governs the entire universe, from the principle of his divine knowledge, manifest in the Word, light of wisdom, on the basis of which Creation develops.

The philosophical vision is present throughout the process of Creation, perceived in the transcendence of Heaven, a vision of a metaphysical pluralism deployed in cosmic Unity which represents the presence of the God Kabawil, principle of wisdom which generates movement in the cosmos and creates the human being similar to it.

The reason specific to the symbolized word accounts for the objectivity of thinking; it is immanent in the spiritual functions concretized in the meaning of the message which assigns it its own value where the specificity of this philosophical thought is rooted.